When Conno Christou’s final PET scan came back ambiguous, his oncologist began discussing radiotherapy close to his heart and lungs. What stopped that from happening was using AI for cancer imaging review: a general-purpose chatbot that flagged a rarely-discussed phenomenon and, Christou says, almost certainly spared him from unnecessary treatment. That is where the story ends. It starts, as these stories often do, with a piece of luck so backhanded it barely feels like luck at all. A Tumour Found by Accident Christou, 35, is a founder who treats his body as a system to be optimised. He tracks his…
Author: Funke Adeyemi
Funke Adeyemi
Funke Adeyemi spent a decade in corporate banking and fintech before moving to business journalism. She started in trade finance at a major UK bank, moved to a payments company scaling into African markets, and spent her last role leading partnerships at a cross-border remittance platform. She writes about business strategy, fintech, digital banking, and the corporate news that moves markets. She is interested in how companies actually make money rather than how they describe making money in investor presentations. Funke lives in South London. She reads earnings calls the way other people listen to podcasts, and finds them about as reliable.
Two weeks after a sweeping export control order forced Anthropic to pull its most powerful cybersecurity models from the market, the Trump administration has restored Anthropic Mythos 5 access for more than 100 specific US government agencies and companies, including permission for non-American employees at those organisations to use the model. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick sent a letter to Anthropic’s chief compute officer Tom Brown on Friday confirming the partial reversal. ‘I have determined that appropriate safeguards are in place to permit certain trusted partners to access the Claude Mythos 5 Model,’ Lutnick wrote, according to the letter seen by…
The GPT-5.6 Sol rollout has launched under an unusual constraint: OpenAI is initially making its most capable new model available only to a select group of partners, after the US government asked for early access ahead of a broader release. The company is not pretending to be happy about it. ‘We don’t believe this kind of government access process should become the long-term default,’ OpenAI wrote in a Friday blog post. ‘It keeps the best tools from users, developers, enterprises, cyber defenders, and global partners who need them.’ OpenAI framed the restricted preview as a short-term step while it works…
Aseon Labs robotaxi pods may look like oversized parking bays, but the Redwood City startup argues they solve one of the most stubborn cost problems in autonomous transport: the empty miles that bleed robotaxi operators dry. The company has raised $10 million in a seed round to prove the concept works at scale. Aseon Labs Robotaxi Pods and the Deadhead Problem Anyone who has watched a driverless Waymo glide through San Francisco heading nowhere in particular has seen the problem up close. “Deadhead miles” (the industry term for kilometres driven without a paying passenger) accumulate every time a robotaxi travels…
The GPT 5.6 limited release will look nothing like a typical OpenAI product launch. Rather than distributing the model broadly, OpenAI plans to share it only with a select group of close partners during a preview period, after the Trump administration asked the company to hold back, according to reporting by The Information. At a staff meeting this week, chief executive Sam Altman told employees that the government would be ‘approving access customer by customer’ during the preview window. If that phase goes smoothly, Altman reportedly said OpenAI hopes to follow with a general release ‘a couple of weeks later.’…
Base Power’s Illinois expansion marks the Austin-based startup’s first move into PJM Interconnection territory, the largest grid operator in the United States by landmass and arguably the one under the most acute strain. The company began selling its home battery systems to Illinois residents this week, offering electricity rates priced 25% below those of incumbent utility ComEd. Base Power’s Illinois Expansion and the PJM Opportunity PJM’s footprint runs from Illinois to Northern Virginia, a corridor that has absorbed an extraordinary volume of new data centre demand. The concentration in Northern Virginia alone makes it one of the densest data centre…
Getting a GPU cluster online is one thing. Getting it profitable is another. The Netris Series A funding round, a $15 million raise led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), is a bet that the unglamorous plumbing between those two moments is where real money will be made. Netris, headquartered in Santa Clara and co-founded by CEO Alex Saroyan, Arsen Arakelyan, and Tigran Martirosyan, all longtime network engineers according to Forbes, sells software that automates the setup, configuration, and ongoing operations of the networks inside GPU data centres. Its platform, formally named NAAM (Network Automation, Abstraction and Multi-Tenancy), is positioned by the…
The Cellebrite Russia dissident phone case has a specific date attached to it now: on or around 17 June 2021, Russian authorities used the Israeli forensics firm’s technology to break into the iPhone 12 of opposition politician Andrey Pivovarov while he was in detention, according to Citizen Lab, the digital rights research group based at the University of Toronto. The problem: Cellebrite had announced it was cutting ties with Russian government customers three months earlier. The episode puts a hard question to anyone who has ever trusted a vendor’s cut-off announcement as a meaningful security guarantee. What the Russian Forensic…
ASML China sales are at the centre of an increasingly pointed diplomatic confrontation between the Netherlands and Washington, after Dutch Trade Minister Sjoerd Sjoerdsma flew to the US capital this week to lobby Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and members of Congress against legislation that could sever the Dutch chipmaking giant from one of its largest markets. The bill in question is the MATCH Act (H.R. 8170), introduced on 2 April 2026 by Congressman Michael Baumgartner of Washington state and cleared by committee on 22 April. It would extend US export controls to cover ASML’s deep ultraviolet (DUV) immersion machines, on…
The Facebook AI companion app announced on Wednesday reimagines the company’s Creator Studio tool as a standalone product, giving video makers and page owners a single place to manage content, analyse performance, and get strategic advice from an integrated AI assistant. The timing is pointed. Facebook faces sustained competition from TikTok and YouTube for the attention of creators, who increasingly decide where to invest their energy based on which platform offers the best tools. By folding those tools into a dedicated app, Meta is trying to make the case that creators do not need to leave Facebook’s ecosystem at all,…
